Forum Archive

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Dec 29, 2018 - 03:39
wangranca
Hi, I have just purchased the ios version, and I am running it on 2017 ipad pro. I cannot find the "asset picker [+]" in the editor view, i...
Dec 28, 2018 - 13:00
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console.input_alert(title[, message, input, ok_button_title, hide_cancel_button=False]) Show a dialog with a single text field. The text fie...
Dec 28, 2018 - 12:37
jmv38
hello again I have another problem: in a simple scatter plot, the points are not plotted correctly in 3d. I use ~~~ ax.scatter(x, y, z, s=80...
Dec 28, 2018 - 10:49
jmv38
this example: https://matplotlib.org/mpl_examples/mplot3d/surface3d_demo3.py when run from pythonista, does not plot as in the doc. It shou...
Dec 28, 2018 - 00:46
[deleted]
I wonder are there any ways for us to translate this app into different languages? My friend likes this app very much. But he is not good at...
Dec 27, 2018 - 23:10
vignesh
Is it in the works? As soon as its available I'll be able to move forward on a lot of projects.
Dec 26, 2018 - 20:12
Mederic
Hi, While exploring the scene module, I noticed that the transparency of SpriteNodes, using the BLEND_NORMAL mode, doesn’t behave the same ...
Dec 25, 2018 - 08:34
user3
Currently I am trying to program a simple rigid-body simulation using Pythonista and it’s Scene framework for the rendering. I realized tha...
Dec 25, 2018 - 02:01
[deleted]
@omz How about updating to python3.6.8? Or python3.7.2?
Dec 23, 2018 - 18:26
castro
I have a problem on my new iPhone8 (ios 12.1.1) Trying to access photos via the code: import paramiko, photos, os, tempfile, clipboard, ui...
Dec 23, 2018 - 18:04
ihf
Is it still the case that it is NOT possible to keep a pythonista script (that is waiting for data on a socket) running in the background (a...
Dec 23, 2018 - 15:19
omz
I‘m guessing 90% of the people reading this already have Pythonista, but in case you’re on the fence, it‘s currently 50% off ($9.99 > $4.99)...
Dec 23, 2018 - 14:14
omz
I was wondering what everyone's thoughts are on moving the Pythonista community over to reddit. It seems to me that a lot of Pythonista-rela...
Dec 23, 2018 - 05:14
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One is not enought. I want to check weather, states of my vps, my schedule and so on. So I think Pythonista can support several widgets at t...
Dec 22, 2018 - 17:44
Drizzel
I currently am trying to get my head around some basic artificial “intelligence“, so I copied this code from the net: ``` import numpy as n...
Dec 22, 2018 - 14:12
Ichicoro
Hello! I just created a telegram group for those of you that'd like to chat with other Pythonista users but don't like Slack. [Here's a link...
Dec 22, 2018 - 00:05
Ichicoro
Hello! I'm trying out the new Pythonista beta, and the documentation for the new `notification` module seems a bit confusing. Specifically, ...
Dec 21, 2018 - 17:44
AlejandroDDD
So, I’m trying to access a subview element located in a custom view made in a .pyui I saw another [post](https://forum.omz-software.com/topi...
Dec 21, 2018 - 14:50
FrankenApps
I've built a little gui, which consist of a custom view and a button inside of it. I want to change the image of the button, which I've set ...
Dec 21, 2018 - 10:10
omz
There's now a public beta for the upcoming Pythonista 3.3. If you signed up for a Pythonista 3 beta previously, you should have received a n...
Dec 20, 2018 - 21:29
vignesh
I just made an app in pythonista 3, is it possible to get it onto the app store by any means?
Dec 20, 2018 - 15:09
Buzzerb
I’m attempting to make a 2048 game that will run as a widget. The game does work, however it will crash if run in the widget. I can also get...
Dec 19, 2018 - 21:28
reticulated
Hello it's me again! I am playing around with implementing a UIStackView via objc_util I have two questions: 1. How do I get access to th...
Dec 19, 2018 - 10:45
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Twitter from omz, "I've submitted a first beta yesterday, and I hope that it gets approved by Apple's beta app review before the holidays."
Dec 18, 2018 - 08:55
louxingliang
Hi, I've read the document of WebView on this website, but still I haven't find the method to do this. If I open a website which is very lon...
Dec 18, 2018 - 01:33
AlbertoAEC
Hello! I want to make a dialog that ask for a received sms code. The oficial form is by a parameter of the UITextField but in Pythonista the...
Dec 17, 2018 - 21:12
reticulated
Hello Pythonistas, I need some help - how can I use objc_util to use the CAGradientLayer class. I can't seem to figure out what Framework(...
Dec 17, 2018 - 07:56
louxingliang
I want to write a python script to replace me screenshot a web. I just need to input the website such as "www.google.com", then the script w...
Dec 17, 2018 - 01:52
msquared
Save Image causes Pythonista to crash with IOS 12.1.1
Dec 16, 2018 - 20:50
cvp
Since 3 weeks, **dialogs.pick_document** sees a .numbers file as a folder, no more as a file, and shutil.copy does not work anymore. I don't...
Dec 16, 2018 - 05:59
hoge
I use iPadPro11inch. When using pythonista3, the assist panel(including indent... something) hides input area at console. is there any worka...
Dec 16, 2018 - 04:39
dakadagm7
Does anyone know if there is a way to access the priority attribute in the Reminders module. It isn’t included in the omz Reminders module d...
Dec 15, 2018 - 21:33
arandomperson
I'm trying to get information about the current song playing outside of the stock music app. Coming from jailbreak development, I know I can...
Dec 14, 2018 - 17:28
caddtec
Hello everyone, There seems to be a problem or maybe I misunderstood the search path algorithm... I have a module in site-packages-3 and th...
Dec 14, 2018 - 04:00
shinyformica
What are the best approaches to having a responsive UI which also allows background threads to run relatively smoothly in Pythonista apps? ...
Dec 13, 2018 - 20:13
Drizzel
I just watched a video of codeBullet yesterday where he explained the basics of coding a simple “intelligent” algorithm that I wanted to rec...
Dec 13, 2018 - 16:56
ihf
I am trying to use https://github.com/microlinux/tello/blob/master/tello.py to talk to a Tello drone but not getting too far. After import ...
Dec 11, 2018 - 22:32
rex_noctis
So I have been having a problem for a while. I am trying to make a program that whilst running will listen for a key word (for example ‘Appl...
Dec 10, 2018 - 17:08
cppkyle
I saw the iOS XCode template for building standalone iOS apps using Python and .pyui. I was wondering, is there something of the sort or wou...
Dec 08, 2018 - 18:47
expaand
Just discovered this, and am blown away! I had no idea Apple would allow such a beast. How was this developed? How did you get the entire P...
Dec 07, 2018 - 13:00
SmartGoat
hey everyone, I want to include a new developper in a Pythonista project, what’s the best way to work together at the same scripts ? Cuz the...
Dec 06, 2018 - 11:32
achterblad
The lines in Editorial even when „narrow“ text width is selected are way to long in landscape mode. In portrait mode the text shape in Edito...
Dec 05, 2018 - 19:05
cvp
- little script to start a thread to display permanently the number of active threads in the status bar of Pythonista - I wrote this script ...
Dec 05, 2018 - 18:32
cvp
you can set - the text, even with combined emoji like flags or 'woman artist' 👩 + 🎨 = 👩‍🎨 - the language/voice among the 52 available - y...
Dec 05, 2018 - 16:56
drpaul
Hello, in pythonista ui I use a textfield to obtain the input of an barcode scanner: ``` class TextFieldDelegate(object): def textfie...
Dec 05, 2018 - 09:12
doTPurge
Create this snippet for creating a printed string: pps (print(“”)) print(“<|>”) The snippet will be inserted with the cursor inbetween the...
Dec 04, 2018 - 07:45
dnino99
I have Pythonista v2 on my iPhone and v3 on my iPad. I can move individual Pythonista files from my iphone to my iPad using Airdrop. I...
Dec 03, 2018 - 22:02
Af305
Hi, I didn‘t programm for a long time now, and just started with Python last week, because I missed programming and wanted to try something...
Dec 03, 2018 - 14:27
G3KuXBxkQf
How can I open or read a Google Sheets document. I do not mind coding so that I download the sheet as a csv and then read and reprocess ...
Dec 03, 2018 - 11:21
NYoannou16
@omz I really want to test pythonista for educational purposes, the beta version. Soon, I will be starting my GCSEs and I thought testing th...